· Private foundation
The Charter Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP VIOLA INC | $70,000 |
| CHAMBERS CO COUNCIL FOR NEGLECTED | $50,000 |
| HILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE | $50,000 |
| POINT UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LAGRANGE TROUP COUNTY HOMELESS | $16,000 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY INC | $16,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET | $16,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WEST POINT | $15,000 |
| TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $14,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER | $12,500 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $10,000 |
| CLOCKWORK YOUTH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| ACCOUNTABILITY TROUP INC | $9,500 |
| NEWBIRTH OUTREACH CENTER INC | $9,163 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
54 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HMHILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC4× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +196%
- CVCAMP VIOLA INC5× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +135%
- CRCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SDSEE DETAIL ATTACHEDone grant, 2022 · $423k
- EEEASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CCCHAMBERS COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
At lifegate counseling center at peachtree, our vision is to foster an environment in which lives are transformed, relationships are reconciled and hope is found. we offer a vast array of faith-sensitive physotherapeutic services and…
Provide education on biblical concepts and values to the community.
The vision of luke10 ministries inc is to help all residents of sw georgia to understand, appreciate and embrace cultural diversity and demonstrate the love of jesus. luke1o ministries inc accomplishes this by a holistic approach to…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
A ministry offering a wide range of services to help meet essential needs, education advancement and counseling of individuals and families in northeast georgia. these services include providing food services, shower and laundry…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Our mission is to assist homeless families with children achieve adequate and consistent income, stable housing,and lasting independence by mobilizing local interfaith communities to provide temporary meals, shelter, compassionate…
To provide educational opportunities and training for preganancy centers in the state of georgia.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
To empower women and their children experiencing homelessness to achieve economic independence and long-term stability.
To address with care and compassion the needs of the people of lumpkin county georgia by offering charitable humanitarian services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony House Domestic Violence She Inc and the most unlike its peers is West point vision. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 191 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP VIOLA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAGRANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAV-A-LIFE LANETTVALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Hart Family Foundation Inc · The Ekkebus Family Foundation Inc · The Lanier Family Foundation · United Way of West Georgia Inc · Davison Bruce Foundation · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Markle Family Foundation Inc · George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company · The Devereaux F and Dorothy M McClatchey Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Charter Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida — 5% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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